Stock mkt sure isn’t scared of a Nuke war . Down 12% is a small pullback

After being up basically 13 straight yrs and up big last 3 if they thought nukes coming we’d be down 50% min .

 

But if nukes do come the market will be down at least 50%. So yeah, the market is scared of nukes.

 

$SPX dropped -35.4% in 23 trading days in 2018 .... without nukes.

If nukes dropped this year, or any other year, markets .... prolly won't exist any longer.

 

The market does not care about nuclear war as everybody will be dead.

 

Except Australia, right @themickey ?

 

"never trade for the end of the world because it only happens once". Who cares if your dead ...plus where do you plan to move your money to escape inflation?

 

TheMickey will be orgasming on Dinki-Di like Mad Max here:

 

That has always been my calculus

 

I would say -90percent within 2 days.

first day -30percent as a gap move and that will spur margin calls up the wazoo and continued forced selling.

It would be so catastrophic the government (if it still exists) would have to backstop all investors and markets would rally back to -20percent on that.

 

How would the Circuit breakers (-20% Limit down trading halt for rest of day) effect that?

It would take 10 days to lose 90% if the markets go limit down -20% every day.

They would just turn the markets off i think, like the Russians have.